DYNAMICS OF PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

A comprehensive text and reference for a first study of system dynamics, this volume presents a careful treatment of the modeling of physical systems in several media and the derivation of the differential equations of motion. It then determines thephysical behavior those equations connote: the free and forced motions of elementary systems and compound "systems of systems." Dynamic stability and natural behavior receive a linear treatment, and concluding chapters examine response to continuingand abrupt forcing inputs and analysis and synthesis of feedback control systems. Applicable to a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, this text features numerous examples and problems that help develop insight in the best traditions of modern engineering. Unabridged republication of the edition published by McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, 1967. 334 figures. 12 tables.